[desdiv]

Dumb question, why does the guide suggest that you create an empty folder and then initialize the project from there? (django_test/mytestsite, locallibrary/locallibrary)

As far as I can tell, no file, hidden or otherwise, is left in the outer folder.

[benwad]

I'm not sure if they do this in the tutorial, but it's a convention that some people use to have the virtual environment next to the project folder in that parent folder so that you don't have to gitignore it (just have the repo in the project folder).